How to Delete all Mail in Gmail Using Simple Trick

You have open your old gmail after long time? I’m sure it is filled loads and loads of Spam and junk mails. Clearing all these unwanted mails in gmail is huge task. But if you follow these simple tricks, you can Delete all Mail in Gmail in an easy way.

Conventional way we follow to delete all mails in gmail is, select all the mails on one page and delete them. Navigate to second page and delete those mail and so on. This would be pretty difficult if you have your inbox filled with huge number of emails.

How to Delete all Mail in Gmail:

Open Gmail signin and Login with your Credentials

After you open Gmail account, you will see list of emails

To Delete all mail in gmail, click on the checkbox on top left area beside Gmail logo

All the 50 conversations on the current page will be selected if you click on that

Once 50 conversations are selected, beside to ‘All 50 conversations on this page are selected‘, you will find ‘Select all 388 conversations in Primary‘ option.

All mail in your inbox are selected now. Just click on Trash icon to delete them

Once you followed all these steps, all your mail will be moved to Trash. They will not be permanently deleted. If you wish to delete them permanently, Follow the below steps.

Go to Trash folder

You will see ‘Empty Trash now‘ option as shown in the screenshot below

Just click on that to delete all mail in trash permanently

How to Delete only Unread Mail in Gmail:

In some cases, you just wanted to delete only unread mails instead of all mail in gmail. In such case, this method will be useful. This way is similar to ‘Delete all mail in Gmail’. Follow the below steps to do it.

Open your Gmail account

Click on the drop down at the selection box on the top menu bar beside Gmail logo

Now you will find options like All, None, Read, Unread, Starred, Unstarred etc.

Choose Unread option to select Unread emails in the current page

For selecting all Unread email, search using ‘label:unread‘ as shown in the screenshot

Click on ‘Select all conversations that match this search‘ option

Now click on Trash icon to delete all the unread mails to delete

To delete them permanently, Go to trash and click on Empty trash option.

How to Delete mail from Particular Contact in Gmail:

If you are getting too many spam emails and you want to delete all the mail from that particular Gmail ID, you can follow these simple steps.

Go to your gmail account

Note down the email id for which you want to delete all emails

Now go to search bar and type ‘from: xyz@gmail.com‘

It will list down all the mails from that particular mail id

Now click on the checkbox to select all the mails

Click on Trash icon to delete them

How to Delete all Mail with Label in Gmail:

You can combine label to utilise advanced search options with Gmail. You even combine multiple labels and drill down to the lowest levels possible. For example, if you want to delete all the mails from a particular id in inbox that you’ve already read etc. Follow the below steps to achieve this.

Using this guide you can select whatever the mails you want to delete in gmail and move them to trash. If you have accidentally delete any mail in gmail, you can get it back easily by following the below steps

Restore mails from Trash:

Go to Trash

Select the mail you want to restore

Once you have selected the mail, restore option will be enabled on the top menu bar

Click on that and your mail will be sent back to inbox/sent items

So this is the complete guide on How to Delete all Mail in Gmail. If you have any queries regarding this or facing any issues deleting emails in gmail, Let us know. We will be glad to help you. Cheers!